Damian Lewis Quotes

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• It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in…
• I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast…
• The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,
• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
• We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
• People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for…
• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used…
• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at…
• I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having…
• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some…
• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play…
• My heroes were all in the theatre.
• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a…
• You just have to take control of your own performance.

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